Central African Republic:   Judges Accept Evidence of Bemba Witness Who Disappeared

Bemba Trial Website, 31 December 2013

The testimony of a witness who disappeared from the International Criminal Court (ICC) before he completed his testimony will be accepted into evidence, judges have ruled. Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa:   ICC Suspends Bemba Trial for Three Weeks

Bemba Trial Website, 13 December 2013

Trial judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have suspended for three weeks the deadlines for filing of pending submissions by parties and participants in the ongoing… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa:   Bemba Names Peter Haynes His Interim Lead Lawyer

Bemba Trial Website, 11 December 2013

International Criminal Court (ICC) judges have granted a request by war crimes accused Jean-Pierre Bemba for Peter Haynes to act as lead counsel in his ongoing war crimes trial.… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa:   ICC Press Release - Bemba Case - Four Suspects Arrested for Corruptly Influencing Witness

PR Newswire, 5 December 2013

Jean-Jacques Mangenda Kabongo appeared before the single Judge of Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Judge Cuno Tarfusser, at the seat of the ICC in… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa:   Second Bemba Lawyer Appears Before ICC On Evidence Forgery Charges

Bemba Trial Website, 5 December 2013

Jean-Jacques Mangenda Kabongo, a member of the defense team in the ongoing trial of Jean-Pierre Bemba, on Thursday made his initial appearance before the International Criminal… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa:   Lawyer Faces Hague Witness Tampering Charge

Hirondelle, 5 December 2013

A second member of Congolese Senator Jean-Pierre Bemba's defence team on Thursday made an initial appearance before the International Criminal Court in The Hague, suspected of… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa:   Bemba's Colleagues Arrested for Witness Tampering Sparks an Indignant Response in the DRC

Bemba Trial Website, 4 December 2013

Dear readers - please find below a commentary written by Olivia Bueno at the International Refugee Rights Initiative (IRRI) in consultation with Congolese activists. The views and… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa:   Bemba and His Lawyer Protest Terms of Their ICC Detention

Bemba Trial Website, 4 December 2013

Aimé Kilolo-Musamba, who until last month was the lead counsel to Jean-Pierre Bemba, has protested the terms under which he and the former vice president of Congo are being… Read more »

Central African Republic:   Bemba's Legal Representation Dilemma

Bemba Trial Website, 28 November 2013

A day after his initial appearance over fresh charges of presenting forged evidence and "ordering, soliciting or inducing his associates to pay money to court witnesses,"… Read more »

Central African Republic:   Bemba and His Lawyer Deny Witness Tampering Charges

Bemba Trial Website, 27 November 2013

Today, Jean-Pierre Bemba made a first appearance before a pre-trial judge to face new charges of witness tampering. He appeared together with Aimé Kilolo-Musamba, the lead… Read more »

Central African Republic:   Bemba's Lawyers, Two Others Arrested Over Witness Tampering

Bemba Trial Website, 25 November 2013

One of the two lead lawyers defending Jean-Pierre Bemba at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has been arrested on charges of witness tampering. Aimé Kilolo-Musamba, who… Read more »